For October, our theme is It's in the Paper. We asked you to send in pictures of miniatures created using paper products.
Please be patient with the Create team (we are all volunteers) as it it may take a few days for your pictures to be posted. You WILL receive a gift but it might take a few weeks.
Here are the beautiful submissions.
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From Marlene Prickett:
I made these paper Hydrangeas in a class taught by Amy White.
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From Julie Stuckmeyer:
I always take Ginger's Gift and Gabs when she has one at Convention because they are always amazing. When the 2020 Convention moved online, I jumped at the chance to get her Gingerbread kits. They are soooooo cute! They are on magnets and spend the entire year on my refrigerator.
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From Ginger Landon Siegel:
Half Scale Bath Shop scene created by Ginger Landon Siegel. This scene used 5 prints that I embellished with bunka, laces, trims, greenery, floral bits and dimensional paints. This, and many other paper based miniature kits in all scales are available on my website.
This rickety 1/4” scale Pink Mansion created by Ginger Landon Siegel and placed in a 8x10 frame was created from 5 layers of prints taken from a wallpaper print given to me by Sally Manwell. Four of Julie Stevens wonderful dolls fit perfectly to add a feeling of life in the neighborhood of this great old house. This kit can be requested as a special order.
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From Suzanne Larson-Tamburo:
Corrugated paper makes great siding and roofing in quarter scale. Just flatten the flutes with the edge of a ruler or a rolling pin, cut and paste to your mini project, then paint.
The picture below shows it as siding and as a “corrugated roof”. This picture shows the paper siding plus the roof is the same paper, flattened and then scored every quarter inch to make it look like shingles.
This is an easy and inexpensive way to get siding and roofing in quarter inch.
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From Carol Gambrill:
Does PaperClay count? (Editorial: ABSOLUTELY!) If so, this structure is from a class that Rik Pierce taught at Philadelphia Miniaturia. I learned so much about this medium and had great fun furnishing it.
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From Fern Rouleau:
This is part of my Ginger wall with some the paper creations I have created from Ginger’s kits.
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From Suzie Aguilar:
1/4” scale Pop-up stalls by Mini Cousins: I enjoyed making this display to exhibit at the Cape Cod NAME Convention. Each pop-up stall kit had many parts created from paper but mainly each canopy roof.
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From Angelika Oeckl:
Here are two of my paper toy minis I made. The circus vignette is all made of paper including the display except the monkey and the paper toy shop is all made of paper but the shop is made of wood.
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From Dia Crissey-Baum:
As a quarter-scaler I’ve done a lot of minis from paper, but probably the one I’m most proud of is Hatter’s House. It’s made from matboard using an altered pattern for a cosplay top hat (which people who live in the real world would make from craft foam). For a fun look at a dad who makes amazing costumes from craft foam please check out their website, https://www.lostwaxoz.com/. I made the doors and some of the windows by layering thinner paper, and I built the curved kitchen cabinets from paper since it would bend better than wood. All of the chairs that I made (the first things I made for my business!) are paper. The decorations on the outsides of the house are mostly paper.
Paper makes an excellent building material for small scales because it bends instead of breaking, and if you’re careful you can even get it to bend in two dimensions. It usually takes paint well, and is sturdy, especially when you glue layers together. I can use paper as thick as watercolor paper in my laser printer and if I had an inkjet I could probably go even thicker! Plus there are so many different types of paper! Glossy, tissue, labels, cardstock, watercolor, posterboard, matboard, just plain copy paper! Paper with flocking, paper with texture, parchment paper… I’m beginning to think I might have a problem. (It’s like when I went to the Girl Scout meeting to talk about adhesives and I brought 17 different kinds of glue with me. I didn’t know there were that many. And I’d left the construction adhesives at home! J)
One more thing about paper: I use glossy paper to make mirrors for my QS furniture kits. I print a big black square on them with the laser printer and then laminate a sheet of silver foil onto the black rectangle and you get a smooth, very shiny mirror, perfect for quarter scale. I can get a lot of mirrors from one sheet of silver!
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From Vicki Scidmore:
I had fun making this watch with layered paper in a class with Ginger Landon Siegel in San Jose a couple of years ago.
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From Janice Waisman:
I made the Ginger Langdon Siegel piece some years ago.
The other piece was for a Madison Area Miniature Enthusiasts club project. Lori Johnson provided all of the paper items for us to cut out and glue in place. Each completed project was different. Here is what I did with mine.
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